Very big Cave Adventure_ The
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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Description

Essentially a graphical version of Colossal Cave, The Very Big Cave Adventure has the player navigating around a forest, collecting treasures and dealing with strange creatures. It involves reading a description of each scene, then typing in one- or two-word commands to perform an action, with some of them providing some humor to the player. Directions can be abbreviated as N, E, S, W.

As you can see from the cover of the game, The Very Big Cave Adventure was meant to be silly. You can tell because there is a troll doll sitting at the table instead of a real troll. I think you can also tell because the dragon is using a joystick the way dragon's never do. And a snake is coming out of the monitor which just seems really wacky.

The Very Big Cave Adventure does not suffer from being needlessly hard. It does suffer from being needlessly wacky. Or perhaps that wackiness isn't needless at all since it's really the main point. A game that parodies a game that didn't really have much of a personality of its own. So it really kind of makes it hard to parody.

Alternate Titles
"Unexpurgated Caves" -- Working title


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